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A Dispensatory
Date: 17th centuryReference: MS.MSL.57- Digital Images
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Quack displaying his wares to a crowd.
Willem Buytenwegh- Books
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The pisse-prophet, or, Certain pisse-pot lectures : Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the piss-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks, and empiricks, or other methodical physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same. By Tho. Brian, M.P. lately in the City of London, and now in Colchester, in Essex. Never heretofore published by any man in the English tongue.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th centuryDate: 1679- Books
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The pisse-prophet, or, Certaine pisse-pot lectures : Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the pisse-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks and empiricks, or other methodicall physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same. By Tho. Brian, M.P. lately in the citie of London, and now in Colchester in Essex. Never heretofore published by any man in the English tongue.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th centuryDate: 1637- Books
On quacks and quackery in seventeenth-century England / by Herbert Silvette.
Silvette, Herbert, 1906-Date: 1939- Books
Quelques charlatans célèbres au XVIIe siècle / [H. Sulblé].
Sulblé, H.Date: 1922- Books
Il medico ciarlatano : vita inimitabile di un europeo del Seicento / Giorgio Cosmacini.
Cosmacini, Giorgio.Date: 1998- Books
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The fool and the knave uncas'd or A true narrative of the abominable cheats of Vincent & Collins, two Domincan friers [sic] living in London.
Date: Printed in the year 1678- Books
Popular medicine in seventeenth-century England / Doreen Evenden Nagy.
Evenden, Doreen.Date: [1988], ©1988- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006679: Portrait of William Atkins (fl. 17th century)
Date: 2 April 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/56/53Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Advertisement : Here is lately arrived a doctor of physick, who by his long study and experience, both at home and in foreign countries, has acquir'd as learned and safe a method in curing all diseases incident to humane bodies ... as the nature of the distemper will permit.
Date: Between 1670 and 1699?]- Books
Quacks : fakers and charlatans in English medicine / Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.Date: 2000- Books
Noble quacksalver : the Earl of Rochester's merry prank / William B. Ober.
Ober, William B., 1920-1993.Date: 1973- Books
The handyecraftes men / A.S. Hargreaves.
Hargreaves, A. S.Date: 1995- Books
Ärzte und Kurpfuscher : kulturhistorisch interessante Dokumente aus alten deutschen Zeitungen (17. und 18. Jahrhundert) / [Eberhard Buchner].
Büchner, Eberhard.Date: 1922- Books
The language of quackery in England, 1660-1800 / Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.Date: 1987- Pictures
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John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20918i- Pictures
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John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Engraving, 1823.
Date: 1823Reference: 20917i- Books
Quackery and commerce in seventeenth-century London : the proprietary medicine business of Anthony Daffy / edited by David Boyd Haycock and Patrick Wallis.
Date: 2005- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor proudly presenting his wares to a small group of people. Line engraving by J. van de Velde after W. Buytewech.
Buytewech, Willem Pietersz, 1591 or 1592-1624.Reference: 20470i- Books
Nomen est Omen? : pseudoexotische Fertigarzneimittel / Axel Helmstädter.
Helmstädter, Axel.Date: 1993- Books
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A gentle dose for the fool turn'd physician. Or a brief reply to Blagraves ravings : By Rob. Bateman the true preparer of the right approved spirits of scurvy-grass, famous throughout the nation for their admirable effects in the scurvy, dropsy, and several other distempers.
Bateman, Robert (Pharmacist)Date: [1680?]- Pictures
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A group of itinerant perfomers on stage at a market, attempting to sell some medicines as well as entertain. Engraving by F.A. David after K. Dujardin.
Dujardin, Karel, 1622-1678.Date: [between 1780 and 1789?]Reference: 21176i- Books
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A character of a true physician, or, A true chymist compared with a goose-quill pedant : with a short view of the frauds and abuses in physick, committed by the confederate prescribing doctoral methodists, with their combinators the apothecaries ... : being a vindication of such physicians as follow not their method but make and administer their own medicines, being the honestest, safest, cheapest, and speediest way of practice, both for physician and patient / by R. Fletcher.
Fletcher, R. (Richard), active 1676-1677Date: 1676- Pictures
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Itinerant actors performing on stage in Rome an attempt to sell medicines to local people. Etching by A. Chataignier and engraving by C. Niquet, the elder, 1818, after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after K. Dujardin, 1687.
Dujardin, Karel, 1622-1678Date: 1818Reference: 20593i